Chance to make chief dips; 3,923 spots up for grabs

Jun. 24, 2014 - 03:13PM
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(Staff)

The latest chief petty officer selection board began its work Monday picking who will be next to move into the chief’s mess in the coming year.

The bad news: the shot at chiefs’ anchors dips this year to 24.09 percent — 2.5 percentage points lower than last year’s 26.68 percent, which at the time was the best in the previous eight years.

But there’s also good news: It’s still one of only four times since 1997 that the chance to make the goat locker exceeded 24 percent. And last year’s record chance aside, that last happened during the 2007 board.

This year, the board will review the records of 16,283 eligible E-6s seeking to fill one of 3,923 available quotas. Both eligibles and quotas are down from last year, when 17,465 sailors competed for anchors and 4,660 moved up.

Two ratings have the potential to advance all eligible sailors — 100 percent — though officials caution that the board always has the option to fill less than the number of authorized quotas if they don’t feel all the candidates are ready.

This year, there’s 27 eligible E-6 submarine-qualified logistics specialists and if the board agrees, all of them could put on anchors. It’s the same for explosive ordnance disposal specialists, where 70 of 70 eligibles could move up.

Last year’s big winner, gas turbine system technician (electrical), which advanced 100 percent in 2013, still will advance more than 80 percent this year, with 33 of 41 moving up.

On the low end, the good news is that every rating has at least one opening for a new chief. Such is the case for musicians in the fleet bands who have a 2.27 percent chance at moving up — one out of 44 eligible sailors will get anchors.

Last year’s lowest performer in the anchors derby was the Seabee rating of engineering aide, with one quota and only a 3.35 percent opportunity. This year, that rating has two openings out of 28 eligible sailors — a 7.14 percent shot at moving up.

CYCLE 222 FY15 ACTIVE E7 QUOTAS

222

222

222

218

218

214

214

BOARD

ADV

ADV

ADV

ADV

ADV

ADV

RATING

ELIG

QUOTA

OPP

QUOTA

OPP

QUOTA

OPP

ABE

151

26

17.22%

31

21.23%

35

22.58%

ABF

80

20

25.00%

36

50.70%

36

42.86%

ABH

167

25

14.97%

83

48.26%

70

34.31%

AC

205

36

17.56%

31

15.35%

26

13.07%

AD

310

69

22.26%

97

31.29%

104

32.30%

AE

235

49

20.85%

67

26.27%

46

19.01%

AG

86

26

30.23%

22

27.85%

12

12.37%

AM

406

95

23.40%

91

23.51%

110

26.07%

AME

101

11

10.89%

31

30.69%

11

11.70%

AO

406

95

23.40%

109

26.85%

138

28.75%

AS

83

18

21.69%

31

32.98%

26

22.22%

AT

438

98

22.37%

49

18.42%

88

32.93%

AWF

90

14

15.56%

9

8.74%

17

13.39%

AWO

137

18

13.14%

6

4.92%

34

25.19%

AWR

60

4

6.67%

9

16.98%

9

15.25%

AWS

86

4

4.65%

30

31.58%

17

17.17%

AWV

61

2

3.28%

14

20.29%

7

8.33%

AZ

137

39

28.47%

59

40.41%

59

39.86%

BM

266

88

33.08%

122

39.10%

114

36.54%

BU

156

10

6.41%

26

14.44%

32

15.53%

CE

100

10

10.00%

14

12.96%

12

9.38%

CM

139

22

15.83%

10

6.29%

16

9.70%

CS GRP1

62

11

17.74%

19

31.15%

28

63.64%

CS GRP2

383

68

17.75%

82

19.25%

59

12.34%

CTI GRP1

96

8

8.33%

10

10.53%

17

18.28%

CTI GRP2

58

16

27.59%

7

12.07%

12

17.39%

CTI GRP3

26

9

34.62%

5

17.86%

6

18.75%

CTI GRP4

22

8

36.36%

5

22.73%

7

26.92%

CTM

85

14

16.47%

15

15.79%

18

20.45%

CTN

117

73

62.39%

44

31.43%

31

23.13%

CTR

360

67

18.61%

71

18.64%

67

16.63%

CTT

224

60

26.79%

53

22.55%

72

26.37%

DC

152

47

30.92%

110

57.59%

59

28.37%

EA

28

2

7.14%

1

3.45%

1

3.45%

EM

174

46

26.44%

106

61.27%

106

54.64%

EMN GRP1

208

28

13.46%

27

11.20%

30

14.02%

EMN GRP2

84

22

26.19%

25

25.77%

20

19.23%

EN

249

49

19.68%

81

24.70%

120

35.19%

EO

113

9

7.96%

17

12.59%

21

12.14%

EOD

70

70

100.00%

69

78.41%

55

69.62%

ET

382

78

20.42%

137

31.28%

102

22.97%

ETN GRP1

103

38

36.89%

34

27.64%

31

27.19%

ETN GRP2

65

9

13.85%

21

25.30%

14

16.28%

ETR

125

60

48.00%

55

41.67%

49

38.58%

ETV

121

64

52.89%

53

39.85%

47

38.84%

FC

254

105

41.34%

87

32.34%

115

38.85%

FC Aegis

220

55

25.00%

35

15.84%

79

33.47%

FT

83

20

24.10%

18

20.45%

10

12.50%

GM

242

78

32.23%

104

33.66%

83

23.85%

GSE

41

33

80.49%

51

100.00%

42

53.16%

GSM

113

67

59.29%

70

46.36%

63

46.67%

HM

1414

269

19.02%

305

21.17%

243

17.22%

HT

163

24

14.72%

50

31.65%

35

21.74%

IC

146

20

13.70%

19

13.67%

34

20.12%

IS

259

47

18.15%

62

23.31%

64

23.53%

IT

815

188

23.07%

219

23.25%

200

19.88%

ITS

54

31

57.41%

10

20.00%

10

23.26%

LN

77

7

9.09%

12

16.90%

27

28.72%

LS GRP1

27

27

100.00%

23

74.19%

22

100.00%

LS GRP2

575

137

23.83%

171

24.82%

128

18.21%

MA

442

130

29.41%

118

24.33%

137

22.91%

MC

91

8

8.79%

23

22.77%

24

18.60%

MM

275

82

29.82%

153

87.93%

79

34.65%

MME

172

39

22.67%

51

29.14%

47

27.65%

MMN GRP1

371

61

16.44%

49

12.44%

61

15.97%

MMN GRP2

250

54

21.60%

58

20.42%

33

12.89%

MMW

56

26

46.43%

36

54.55%

34

53.13%

MN

50

26

52.00%

22

41.51%

7

12.96%

MR

53

20

37.74%

6

12.77%

11

23.40%

MT

90

23

25.56%

22

23.16%

38

44.71%

MU GRP1

60

8

13.33%

7

11.11%

7

10.45%

MU GRP2

44

1

2.27%

3

9.68%

7

21.88%

NCC

176

28

15.91%

32

16.75%

37

19.89%

NCR

79

44

55.70%

85

75.22%

50

37.88%

ND

137

31

22.63%

20

15.15%

29

19.73%

OS

375

150

40.00%

129

29.05%

114

22.71%

PR

119

18

15.13%

20

15.75%

16

12.21%

PS

194

63

32.47%

54

27.41%

82

31.18%

QM

106

37

34.91%

31

27.43%

41

33.06%

RP

47

6

12.77%

16

27.12%

12

19.35%

SB

101

22

21.78%

26

28.57%

35

43.21%

SH

115

15

13.04%

25

18.66%

16

12.03%

SO

271

98

36.16%

90

30.82%

77

27.80%

STG

166

31

18.67%

71

37.77%

45

21.33%

STS

201

18

8.96%

60

28.99%

9

4.74%

SW

55

8

14.55%

12

18.75%

4

5.19%

UT

72

5

6.94%

16

19.05%

4

4.08%

YN GRP1

37

19

51.35%

19

45.24%

29

55.77%

YN GRP2

388

109

28.09%

117

28.47%

142

30.15%

TOTAL

16283

3923

24.09%

4660

26.68%

4434

23.96%

Notes:

1. Board Eligible: Population of test taking Sailors (approximately top 60% of test takers), and those on an IA waiver, who have become selection board eligible for Chief Petty Officer.

3. Opportunity: Percentage of the rating's quota to the eligibles. 100% opportunity indicates that the Selection Board may select all selection board eligible candidates. However, the board is not bound to fill all quotas.